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A04379	Newcastles call, to her neighbour and sister townes and cities throughout the land, to take warning by her sins and sorrowes Lest this overflowing scourge of pestilence reach even unto them also. As also a direction, how to discover such sins as are the procurers of Gods judgments by divers methods. By R. Jenison, Dr. of D. Whereunto is added, the number of them that dyed weekely in Newcastle and Garth-side, from May 6. to December 31. 1636.	Jenison, Robert, 1584?-1652.	1637 (1637)	STC 14492; ESTC S107703	57,340	278

the old World by water or as he destroyed Pharaoh and his whole Army at once in the red Sea or as it shall be at the last Iudgement But see instead of such sudden and universall destruction which being formerly so neere may seeme in regard of our deserts and for our great unthankefulnesse and forgetfulnesse of that and other mercies at this time to be much nearer The Lord did not onely then respite us but now when hee might justly give us over to their mercilesse hands to bee judged with their judgement that is to bee consumed at once in their boundlesse rage hee keeps the rod in his owne hand and begins as it were at an end of us smites some few in comparison of all and so gives warning to the rest hovering as it were Hee expects wee should meet him a far off and standing at our gates at our neighboring townes and cities expecting what we will doe to stay his wrath hearkning and listning as it were to heare what wee will doe what we will say to him whether wee will repent us of our wickednesse saying What have we done As hee meets us in our wayes of sinne or whether wee wil turn to our course as the Horse into the battell without all feare of his wrath as once hee did with the Iewes Ier. 8.6 in effect telling us it is much what in our power and so asking us whether he shall proceed in wrath against us or no whether this Plague now begun shall presently end or else proceed and make an end of us also notwithstanding our present seeming safety in places remote from the infection or whilst wee have removed and fled bodily from the same This is a mercy then not to be neglected that God gives us space and time to consider what we will do that hee gives us warning of his approach letting us know that hee our Iudge hath begun to ride his circuit As hee met with Balaam and is on his way already and hath sent out the destroying Angel before him with a sword of Pestilence in his hand to meet us in our sinfull wayes standing in our way for an adversary against us as once against Balaam in his way of ambition and covetousnesse being gone out to withstand us as once him Numb 22.22.32 because our way is perverse before him Oh that wee were not in this case more stupid blind then Balaams Asse which saw the Angell of the Lord standing in the way and his sword drawne in his hand and turned out of that way or would not go on but fall downe to the ground under Balaam Oh that the Lord would at length open our eyes as he did Balaams to see the Angell of the Lord standing in our way whatsoever it be whether that of Covetousnesse or whether it be Pride Ambition Malice hatred of the good defection from the goodwayes of God wearying of his yoke and Gospel sensualitie and love of pleasure selfe-confidence and carnall security feeding and feasting without feare profanation of Gods name Assuredly God by his sword and judgement is comming towards us and threatens us who once were as a fire-brand pluckt out of the burning to overthrow us Amos 4.11.12 as he overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah that is all at once and suddenly And shall wee not take that spoken unto us seeing we yet have not returned unto him which he graciously spake to Israel Because I will doe this unto thee prepare to meet thy God ô Israel ô England O sinfull towne citie or place will we yet sit still and settle on our lees through security and suffer the Destroyer to enter into our windowes our houses our bed-chambers yea our beds and bosomes will wee not run out with intreaty of peace fall downe before him and make supplication to our Iudge Let us not at least come behind Balaam who at length seeing the Angel his sword drawn in his hand bowed downe his head Numb 22.31.34 and fell flat on his face-saying I haue sinned now therefore if it displease thee I will get mee back againe This he said but it was not altogether in that sincerity seeing his heart still went after his covetousnes which his hypocrisie wee must take heed of but bee ashamed to come behind him and his Asse which also fel down before the Angell in humility whilst vve neither upon this occasion do or professe halfe so much Novv that the Angell discovered himselfe unto Balaam and hee hereupon humbled himselfe it vvas a mercy to him for othervvise Verse 33. the Angell had slaine him And as hee met with Ionah Ionah 1.1.2.3 c. So the Lord in like mercy and vvith an intent to bring to repentance reformation met vvith Ionah by stormes and tempests at Sea in the vvay of his disobedience and as I may cal it non-residence vvith Moses in the Inn With Moses in the vvay of Neglect vvhom by the way in the Inn the Lord met and sought to kill him for not circumcising through too much respect to his vvife his sonne in time And doubtlesse And the Iewes this is a mercy if vve could see it vvhen God by any judgement stands in our sinful vvaies and as the Prophet speaketh Hedgeth up our way Hos 2.5 6 7. that wee should not find our paths c. As Beastes are kept within their owne Pastures by sharp and thornie hedges least they breake out and lose themselves so the Lord when we are ready to goe astray from him proves in regard of some afflictions which he sends as a thornie hedge to us so that wee cannot offer to goe on in sinfull waies or to breake our bounds but wee runne upon the thornes And with Paul Act. 9.5 and kick against the pricks as it was told to Saul or Paul when Christ met with him in his way of Persecution and strucke him to the earth It was happy for Saul that God went out thus and me him And so it will be our happinesse if whilst God meets us by Pestilence in our evill waies as once hee met King David in the way of his Pride and selfe-confidence and vaine-glory wee would consider our waies which proove thus bitter and crosse to us and speedily turne from them lest wee meet with destruction in the same or goe on therein to perdition Wee may say and that truly that God now meets with us by this sword o● arrow of pestilence in ou● way of Sinfull companying one with another wherby wee infect one another i● soule by good fellowship 〈◊〉 wee call it by potting b●zeling gossiping excesse i● feasting excesse of wine● revellings banquetings c. So hee now meet with us in the way of ou● Idle discourses and unsavourie communication an● unprofitablenesse in companie of uncleane behaviour and adulteries of unlawful mariages of needlesse intertaining of Gods enemies and unnecessarie acquantance and familiaritie wit● ●●em So in our way

such as are left in this citie from the pestilence from the sword that is some lesser hurt by it from the king of Aegypt and from the famine into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and into the hand of their enemies and into the hand of those that seeke their life and hee shall smite them with the edge of the sword hee shall not spare them neither have pitie nor have mercy Pestilence is the last of Gods mercifull rods And thus I may call Pestilence the last of Gods mercifull rods which if it be neglected it serves for our further conviction to make way for mercilesse judgements and for the justification of his severitie in them seeing wee take no warning by this his last triall of us Which neglected is for conviction For vvhat may vve expect if vvhen God himselfe comes apparantly against us and stands in our vvay vvee submit not to him by humbling our selves but vvill on as it vvere in despite of him as vvee resist him he vvill resist us and become a consuming fire unto us as hee saith Esa 27.4 who would set the briars and thornes against mee in battle I would goe through them I would burn them together but of this more in the last motive Only novv consider And foreruns greater evils vvee that vvhere beginnings of vvrath as of fire and former and lesser strokes and judgements are neglected there at length a heavier vveight of vvrath follovves yea utter destruction lesser judgements neglected are but threatnings and fore runners of greater as the laying of the Axe to the root of the trees or as the lopping of them and digging at the roots of them after vvhich if they continue still barren and unfruitfull then follovves that irrevocable sentence Luke 13.7 cut it downe Whatsoever judgements haue gone before they are all as nothing and make vvay for greater to follovv as the lesser vvedge for the greater Thus said the Lord to Israel of old Isa 9.12 13 14. The Syrians before and tho Philistines behind and they shall devoure Israel with open mouth for all this his anger is not turned away but his hand is stretched out still for the people turneth not unto him that smiteth them neither doe they seeke the Lord of hosts Therefore will the Lord cut off from Israel head and tayle branch and rush in one day So hee had almost done with us as is said in the Powder Furnace And so calls on us in time to turne to the Lord. yet hath beene graciously pleased both to respite us then and since to come towards us leisurely by slow paces and approaches Now seeing wee will not seeke to pacifie him at the first going out of wrath when the Plague is as yet but only begun what may we expect but that having already sent the Pestilence into the land Ezek. 14.19 20. hee poure out his fury upon it in blood to cut off from it man and beast as hee threatned his people and when no Intercessor should be accepted for them Let us of this place especially thinke of this now On us especially of this place when God at the first going out of his wrath among us makes greater speed then ordinarily hee hath done here yea or else where in our land formerly in any one place Anno 1624. 1625. so that in the mother citie eleven yeares agoe there died not so many of the Pestilence in their 120. parishes within and without the liberties for the first 3. moneths though before all was done it became the greatest that any man living could remember and greater I take then their generall bill for the yeare would make it unlesse you will allow above eighteene thousand to die in plague-time of ordinary diseases in one year I say there died then not so many there in the first three moneths by their bils as with us in our foure parishes within the space of fourteene or fifteene dayes S. 114. and that only within liberties And considering how since it increaseth rageth rather runs spreads like wild-fire will ●it not concerne us then to use speed which if Aaron had not done here who being commanded to goe quickly unto the Congregation did run into it what had become of the whole Congregation consisting of divers hundred thousands which God threatned to consume as in a moment when for all his haste running in at the first going out of wrath and at the very beginning of the Plague before he got to doe his office and make the atonement there were dead fourteene thousand and seven hundred how soone yea how justly might God make a speedy riddance of us all by this or some other worse plague if his patience were not much yea infinitly more then our haste Let us therefore take that or the like in effect spoken to us which was spoken by the Lord to his people of old when for their sinne hee justly plagued them Exod. 32.35 Yee are a stiffe-necked people I will come up into the midst of thee in a moment and consume thee therefore now put off thy ornaments from thee that is betake thy ●elfe to fasting and to ●rayer that I may know ●hat to doe unto thee This vvas accordingly and ●orthvvith done by them Novv for us I advise that vvhat vve doe it bee done ●peedily yea and diligently Ezra 7 2●-23 as King Artaxerxes decreed in a like case for why saith hee though an heathen should there bee wrath against the Realme of the King and his Sons Doubtlesse this motion and pace of Gods justice being naturall to him as well as that of mercy is swifter at the later end thā at the beginning and I am afraid wee shall so find it 〈◊〉 we take not our time out 〈◊〉 hand for prevention Nearer sudden destruction w● of this nation cannot be to escape then we were Novem. 5.160 5. suffer we once his long patience to turne into fury and then expect wee no after-warnings some one blas● of hellish popish sulphurous malice or some one stroke of divine justice some other way shall doe the deed and dispatch us all at once But of this point of doctrine of the proceeding of Gods wrath against obstinate obdurate and impenitent sinners even till he utterly destroy and consume them I have selfwhere treated largely * Prognosticks Divine or Treat on Esay 9.12.13 My conclusion here shal be ●y wish The Lord in mer●ie avert and turne such ●eavie vvrath from us by converting and turning us by the power of his grace unto himselfe Amen CHAP. IX This wrath and pestilence is from the Lord and therfore howsoever his Prophets may be despised yet God himselfe is not to bee dallyed withall whose greatnes terror should cause us seeke peace wit● him in time A fourth Motive to speedy repentance is to consider God the Author of this plague THe fourth and last Motive from

the text i● briefly to bee considere● from the Authour of th● wrath which is here sai● to bee gone foorth from th● Lord. It is the Lord the● we have to deale withall and who now hath to de●● with us therfore it is no● to dally with him Wee may perhaps presume o● impunity from men whe●● we offend them and hope by gifts friends flatteries and fained submission to asswage their displeasure or it may bee when Gods faithfull servants discover ●ur sins Who confirmes the word of his Servants denounce judg●ents against us for the ●●me though they doe it ●ccording to Gods word ●et wee can count their ●ords but winde and ●●ēselves lying Prophets ●r otherwise to speake as ●et on by those wee alike ●●ate or we threaten and ●ome even with them for ●heir boldnes sauciness ●●r at least wee can with●raw our selves frō them ●nd heare them no more ●nd so at once seeke their ●isgrace as not vvorthy ●o be heard and keep our ●elves as wee thinke out ●f the lash of their words But what can we thus d● with the Lord himselfe when he comes to perform the word of his servants Psal 149.7 8 9. 〈◊〉 execute vengeance upon th● heathen and punishmen● upon the people to bind the●● Kings with chaines an● their Nobles with fetters 〈◊〉 yron to execute upon the●● the judgmēt written who as he will do nothing in th● kind but hee revealeth h● secret unto his servants t●● Prophets Amos 3.7 so he confirme●● the word of his servan●● both in good and evil a●● performeth the counsell 〈◊〉 his Messengers Men ma● then belie the Lord Isa 44.26 an● say it is not he neither sh●●● evill come upon us neither ●●all wee see sword nor fa●ine Ier. 5.12 13 14. And the Prophets 〈◊〉 all become wind and the ●ord is not in them But what saith the Lord for the ●ncouragement of his ser●ant Ieremy And will bee acknowledged to bee the author as of other evils Because yee ●●eake this word behold I ●ill make my words in thy ●outh fire and this people ●ood and it shall devoure ●hem Loe I will bring a na●ion upon you c. It is good for us then if wee ●ave neglected the word of Gods servants former●y not to neglect the performance of it by God himselfe but to become wise for after times who among you will give eares this Isay 42.23 24 25. who will hearken a●● heare for the time to come●● who gave Iacob for a spoile● and Israel to the robbers did not the Lord he again●● whom wee have sinned Therfore he hath poured upon him the fury of his anger c. Oh let it not be sai● of us as there it followeth And it hath set him on fire round about So of Pestilence yet hee knew not and it burned him ye● hee la●d it not to heart Far bee this stupidity from u● at this time Let us consider then that this wrath i● gone out from the Lord. 〈◊〉 is hee against whom wee haue sinned and whom vvee haue provoked and ●●erefore there is no dal●ing with him as is said 〈◊〉 is hee himselfe that ●●mes against us Habak 3.5 Before ●m goes the Pestilence and ●●●rning coales or diseases ●●e forth at his feet Now ●●e we stronger then hee ●●e wee able in our sinnes 〈◊〉 stand in his way hee ●●th already often before ●●d now also sent the Pe●●lence among us after the ●anner of Egypt yea he ●●th overthrowne some of 〈◊〉 as God overthrew So●om and Gomorrah and ●ee were as a fire-brand ●uckt out of the burning ●t have yee not returned to me Who is mighty in strength and not to be dallied withall or withstood saith the Lord No● heare vvhat God saith us as once to Israel The●●fore thus will I doe un●● thee O Israel O Englan● ô citie ô tovvne hovv even as unto Sodom th● was overthrowne as in moment and because I wi●● doe this unto thee Amos 4.10 11 12 13. prepare● meet thy God O Israel Th●● is our duty then of vvhic● vvee also formerly heard but vvhy are vvee thus t● prepare that follovves For loe he that formeth th● mountaines and create● the wind or spirit and d●clareth unto man what is h● thought that maketh th● morning darkenesse an● treadeth upon the high places of the earth the Lord the God of hosts is his name Where hee invests himselfe vvith many titles of greatnesse povver yea and terrour and all to inforce the aforesaid duty of repentance and humiliation upon us letting us knovv vvho it is that ●hreatens us vvho it is that ●s gone out against us no ●ther then this mighty God this Lord of hosts who hath all creatures in ●eaven and earth at his ●ommand and ready to ●xecute his vengeance ●nd righteous judgements ●n all impenitent sinners so that when once hee shewes his displeasure it s in vaine either to seeke shelter or help from them or not to feare vengeance from them as instruments of his wrath whose are the mountaines the wind and all other creatures so that the mountaines shall no● save nor hide from hi● wrath when it is on●● gone forth in fury as i● Noah his flood Neither is there any fleeing from him when the highest hils and mo●● towring mountaines coul● not shelter them that fle● thither for refuge but th●● the waters of his wra●● did overtake and swee● them all away and 〈◊〉 wind which God sent out shall meet with disobedient Ionas who would have fled from Gods presence and the storme shall teach him obedience Nay we know God can and often doth arme base and weake creatures against proud and impenitent sinners yea their owne friends and confederates in whose helpe and assistance they trust nay sometimes their owne selues against themselues as * On Amos 4.12.13 p. ●26 c. 156. c. In l. 3. Iob. 9.4 elswhere I shew more largely He is mighty in strength who hath hardned himselfe against him and hath prospered And it would be observed God to humble us shewes his power that when God calls men to humiliation for their sinnes hee often shewes his power and terriblenesse by some not onely description of it as when he humbled Iob by asking him Iob 40 6.7-9 Hast thou an arme like God canst thou thunder with a voice like him and by shewing him his great power in the Behemoth and Leviathan Both by words and workes or in the Elephant and Whale the effect whereof in Iob was an humble submission of himselfe unto God Iob 42.1.2.3.4 5 6. but by workes o● his power as by sending thunder stormes grea● raine by which he● brought his people of old to confesse their sinne in asking them a King in distrust and with rejection of Gods government 1. Sam 1● 16.17.18.19 so by a great raine which hee sent the better to prepare the people to repentance and reformation

of their wayes Esia 10.9 when Esra had assembled them to that end It is said All the people sate in the street of the house of God trembling because of this matter and for the great raine Yea God would so haue prepared us of this nation as may bee remembred by sending very * Iuly 16. being Saturday 1625. fearful thunder and raine a little before the * Iuly 20. first day of that solemne humiliation injoyned some eleven years agoe And what may we think God would haue had us doe as then so when before that hee met with us or was making towards us in our way of Security by the Spanish Armado Ann. 1588. and mighty Navie by sea and by the popish and hellish Plot of powder Ann. 1605. and so in our way of excesse by scarcity and famine and in the way of our other many sinnes by this heavie judgement of Pestilence both formerly and now Shall wee yet prooceed on in our former security excesse and all our other provocations of the divine Majesty will wee needs try our strength with him Behold saith God the flight shall perish from the swift Amos 2.14 15.16 and the strong shall not strengthen his force neither shall the mighty deliver himselfe neither shall hee stand that handleth the Bow And he that is couragious among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day saith the Lord. The like may the Lord now say to us concerning whatsoever it is wee place our confidence in whether we harden our selues against him in our pride and obstinacy or whether we hope to escape this his hand by fleeing from places infected Instead of fleeing from him no there is no flying from him in our sinnes neither any resistance of him whither shall wee flee from him hee is a consuming fire to sinners Hebr. 10. Isa 42 25. yea a fire round about circling you in which way soever you runne it is still into the fire and your name shall bee as Pashurs was Ier. 20.1.2.3 Magormissabib Feare round about And how shal wee withstand or resist his power And of resisting him Shall wee not perish by his hand Is he not the Lord of Hosts Who would set the Briars and Thornes against him in battel Isa 27.4 would he not go through them and burne them together What then is to be done We are in time to seeke to appeaze him Let us not with Adam thinke to flee from God but to him by humble submission If we flee let it be from his Iustice to his Mercie If we flee not to his Mercie goe whither we will we fall upon his Iustice Appeale we then from God just to the same God mercifull and gracious in Christ By the examples of for it is the same God that smites in his wrath and who must heale in his mercie Shim●i Or if not this then let us consider whether we be able to meet this great King comming against us in blood and in furie if wee be not and who is then as hath been alreadie said Luke 14.31.32 while hee is yet a great way off let us send an Embassage before us and desire conditions of Peace and make peace with him for which we have his gracious promise Isa 27.5 and herein follow wee the wisedome as of Iacob and Abigail 2 Sam. 19 1●-19 c. so of Shemei meeting David with a present and humble intreaties and confessions after hee saw him returned as reinvested in his Kingdome And so of Rahab Rahab who hearing of Gods mightie workes in Aegypt Hebr. 11. sought peace long before with Gods people which in her was a worke of Faith The Gibeonites as in the Gibeonites of Wisedome who hearing of the fame of the God of Israel and of that hee did in Aegypt sought peace with Ioshua had it Iosh 9 3.4-6-9.10.11-15 Iosh 11.19 20. and so saved their lives which all the rest refusing to doe as hardning themselvs in their own strēgth they all perished And a like fearfull signe and presage of destruction it is now to so many of us as when Gods Wrath is gone out against us and the Plague is begun doe neither seek peace with God nor yet will accept of it being offred to us Surely it is of the Lord to harden such mens hearts that they should as it were by their obstinacie in Sin come in battell against him that hee might destroy them utterly and that they might have no favour but that he might destroy them as was said of those Kings of Canaan who neither sought Deut. 20.10.11.12.13 17. nor accepted such conditions of Peace as were offered them CHAP. X. The Conclusion of the Motives urging a speedie performance of the duty of Humiliation both publikely and privately and that from the practice of the Heathen in case of Pestilence VVHat now remaines the Premises cōsidered but that we everie one in his place set our selves to our duty The Authors wish that all would seek to appeaze this wrath It is our case now our Sins have provoked God and he is ready to consume us all as in a moment yea wrath is gone forth from the Lord the Plague is begun among us Wee have the Lords direction alreadie what to doe which wee shall consider hereafter as Moses here had How then is it to be wished that Moses did command Aaron to runne in with his Censer that Authoritie and the supreme Magistrat● did injoyne the Priests of the Lord Aaron and his Sons speedily without any longer delay to run in and that they and all other whether Magistrates or other that have any Incense or other Sacrifice to offer would accordingly speedily perform their Office and use all possible meanes with like haste to stay the further proceeding of this great wrath of God Both Magistrates The Magistrate by speedy execution of Gods righteous judgements on the wicked with noble Phineas which Psal 106.30 if it either had beene universally and unpartially performed or yet were so done we never needed to feare such wrath from God or the continuance of it Ministers The Priest and Ministers of the Lord vvith Prayers and solemne Supplications in the publicke Assemblies and vvith godly Instructions Admonitions and Directions given the people yea and the people and generally all by unfained Humiliation of themselvs And others and Reformation in some good measure of things amisse and by such means as shall upon other Texts and Grounds of Scripture more particularly and fully be named if God will Such things should be done I knovv during the time of Gods patience for the prevention of his judgements As the Israelites in Egypt having cause to feare Gods plagues for their Idolatrie in Aegypt Ezek. 20.7 8. sought to turne them away namely Sword Pestilence and to prevent them by Humiliation Sacrifice though not within the land of Aegypt for